Just want to show you folks my first partscaster build, completed a few weeks back.1 piece ash body bought from Booboo guitars on the bay, unfinished and the "reject" is a small routing error in the trem spring cavity.The neck is from NorthWest Guitars, though I bought it "nearly new" locally for a fraction of the price.Pickups are Voltage Pickups Vicious set, and bloody nice they are too!Scratchplates, jack tray/switchcraft socket all from Northwest Guitars again.Wiring loom from a 70's Fender Japan strat.

1st coat of Tru-Oil, no grainfilling as the open grain is pretty minimal.

after the first coat of oil it revealed the machine marks still evident in the wood, so off it all came and go again!!

This was a PITA as the oil soaks in quite some way, took a fair few sanding sheets to clear the bugger!.

And the finished article:

The bridge is a new Wilkinson WPVc, and bloody good it is too, nice big steel block and the whole thing behaves itself, returning to pitch beautifully.

The neck sits a 1/2mm too high in the pocket, but lacking a router I don't fancy taking the required wood from the pocket for fear of screwing the whole thing up, playability is outstanding as is so....

I have to recommend these NorthWest Guitars' necks, a nice fat handfull and 12" radius, lovely!

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Thanks guys. There really was no skill involved, just selecting the correct sized parts, lots and lots of sanding and about 10 coats of tru oil.

Si it plays very much like my spectrum, mostly due to the neck pocket being slightly higher (1/2mm) than it should be.It sounds so good though, the Voltage pickups are really nice, quite snappy and plenty of power on tap should I need it, though I've been playing it with the volume rolled off a little for some well balanced clean stratty goodness.

I bought a rosewood neck first off, but the heel didn't fit the body so I have this spare lovely neck, all I need is a body....tuners....scratchplate....bridge...and it all starts again! Bloody addictive so it is.

Sgt. Vimes wrote:I bought a rosewood neck first off, but the heel didn't fit the body so I have this spare lovely neck, all I need is a body....tuners....scratchplate....bridge...and it all starts again! Bloody addictive so it is.

that's how it goes...it is a slippery slope and then you end up with a room full of 'em.